Suffer and be Still: Women in the Victorian AgeThe ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth -- with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian women fought against, but only partially defeated. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - Steelwhisper - LibraryThingQuite interesting. Consulter l'avis complet